How has Oracle managed to scale annual revenues toward ninety billion USD across multiple product generations?

Larry Ellison
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Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CTO at Oracle

Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. USD 7.5 Billion/month
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Started: 1977

Oracle succeeded across five decades because we never trapped ourselves in legacy architectures. We migrated our entire enterprise customer base from on-premise mainframe databases to client-server architectures, then into the internet era, and finally into autonomous cloud services. By underpinning mission-critical enterprise workflows like payroll, inventory, and supply chain logistics, our recurring software footprint continues to compound.

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